prolonged

US: /pɹəˈɫɔŋd/

UK: /pɹəlˈɒŋd/


English - Vietnamese dictionary

prolonged /prolonged/
  • tính từ
    • kéo dài, được nối dài thêm
      • a prolonged visit: cuộc đi thăm kéo dài

Advanced English dictionary

+ adjective
[only before noun] continuing for a long time: a prolonged illness + a prolonged period of dry weather + the effects of prolonged exposure to the sun + In many parts of the country, frosts were severe and prolonged.

Thesaurus dictionary

v.
extend, lengthen, elongate, stretch (out), draw or drag out, drag (on), keep up, string out, protract:
Not wishing to prolong the agony, we left after the first act. Aunt Caroline prolonged her visit by yet another week.

Collocation

VERBS

be | become

ADV.

very | not unduly
The surgery must not be unduly prolonged.
| fairly, quite, relatively, somewhat


Concise dictionary

prə'lɔŋd /-lɒŋd
adj.
+relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
+drawn out or made longer spatially
+(of illness) developing slowly or of long duration
prolongs|prolonged|prolongingprə'lɔŋ /-'lɒŋ
verb
+lengthen in time; cause to be or last longer
+lengthen or extend in duration or space

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